Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

My Feeble attempt at Comet Atlas last night.
I had high thin clouds off and on during the hour of semi transparency that I tried to image in.
Last night was the first night I tried letting Stellarium run my CGEM mount and I was honestly pretty impressed with the results.
Atlas was not dead center but it didn't wander during the session staying where Stellarium told it to stay.
Particulars.
Celestron 6" Newtonian on my Celestron CGEM mount.
Canon 7D Mark II at ISO 400 and 30 second exposures.
I was able to stack 15 images in Lightroom and played with exposure and contrast to pull details.
Image has been cropped by about 50%.
Considering the Moon and being in a Bortle 8 zone I was pleased to pull out what I pulled.
I'm hoping for clearing skies later this week but the moon is going to a bigger issue I think.
Plus I need to collimate my scope again.

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Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

I just read a post in another group that I follow that Atlas appears to be breaking up.
I may not get my second chance later this week if this holds true.
To bad, I wanted to try my C8.

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=13620&fbclid=IwAR2HHMPu_nK7Az3iLiCazy3OhMQvD4te4f7VMgj4L5pzeJGFKnFNxx2kxVI

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I can concur from Cloudy Nights they have break up images.

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/701118-c2019y4-atlas-breakup-images/?p=10095712

I'm under clouds and rain.
So skunked.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Yep, rain AGAIN tonight. In fact every night.

But it does look like Atlas is not a Hale-Bopp.

If Sonny had not bought that new mount, would we be having all this rain? Probably not.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Looks great Jim! Glad you can get some images.
I have 98-100% clouds for tonight. Crap!

I know, I know...
It's rained so much here (and yup, raining right now) that Brush Fire Season is canceled this year.
Not because of the Corney Virus, but because all the brush has drowned and molded away.
No Chit, I have moss growing on some of my concrete. Not to mention the webs growing between my toes.
Of course, our weather guessers reporting from home say we are still behind in rain totals.
I'd like to kick their behinds, but that would violate Social Distancing....